PR Times

PR Times is a Japanese public-relations company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Its principal business is the distribution of corporate and institutional press releases through the PR TIMES platform. Companies, government offices, local governments, and other organizations can use the service to publish announcement materials, while journalists and the general public can access the resulting releases online. The platform is designed to connect organizations seeking publicity with media outlets and broader audiences through a centralized, searchable distribution channel. The service occupies a position between conventional public-relations agencies, news-release wires, and digital media distribution. Rather than limiting announcements to a private media list, PR TIMES makes releases available on a public website and supports their circulation through relationships with external media organizations. Its distribution network has included approximately 200 media partners, including digital editions associated with major Japanese newspapers such as The Asahi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, and Yomiuri Shimbun. Partner arrangements can allow releases to be republished in their original form, extending the reach of announcements beyond the PR TIMES domain. By February 2021, more than 50,000 companies were reported to use the service, including approximately half of Japan's listed companies. The platform was also reported to handle more than 20,000 press releases per month, with peak page views exceeding 60 million. These figures illustrate the scale of its role in Japan's corporate communications ecosystem, although they are historical reference points rather than current operating metrics. The company has also described its broader activities as including corporate public-relations support and public-hearing or listening-related activities. These areas complement the core distribution service by helping organizations communicate with stakeholders and understand public responses. The brand therefore functions not only as a press-release outlet but also as an infrastructure provider for institutional communications. PR Times became a publicly listed company and subsequently moved from the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market for startup companies to the First Section in August 2018. It has also been included in the JPX-Nikkei Mid and Small Cap Index. The company remains active, with its identity closely associated with the PR TIMES distribution service and with the digitalization and broadening of press-release dissemination in Japan.

PR Times developed as a Japanese communications company centered on the online dissemination of press releases. Its principal service, also named PR TIMES, provides a common publication and discovery point for announcement materials prepared by businesses, government offices, local governments, and other organizations. Releases are available to media members as well as to the general public, giving the platform a dual role: it serves professional journalists looking for source material and ordinary readers interested in company, institutional, and community news. The model reflects the shift from individually managed press lists and printed corporate announcements toward searchable, web-based distribution. Organizations can publish announcements through a dedicated service, while the platform gives those announcements a potentially wider audience than direct outreach alone. PR Times has supplemented its own site with relationships involving roughly 200 media outlets. These have included digital versions of major Japanese national newspapers, among them The Asahi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, and Yomiuri Shimbun. Under such arrangements, releases may be reproduced in their original form, allowing information first submitted through PR TIMES to circulate across additional media channels. The company has reported substantial adoption within Japan's corporate sector. As of February 2021, more than 50,000 companies were said to use the service, including about 50 percent of listed companies. At the same historical point, the service was described as distributing more than 20,000 releases each month. Its highest reported page-view level exceeded 60 million. These indicators suggest that PR TIMES became a significant piece of the country's business-information and public-relations infrastructure, although the cited figures are time-specific and should not be treated as current measurements. Beyond release distribution, PR Times has described activities related to corporate public relations and public hearing or listening. These activities broaden the company's role from simply transmitting announcements to supporting how organizations communicate with stakeholders and monitor public response. The core brand nevertheless remains the PR TIMES platform, whose value is based on reach, speed, accessibility, and the ability to place institutional announcements in a public digital environment. A significant corporate milestone occurred in August 2018, when PR Times moved from the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market to the First Section. The transition marked a progression from the startup-oriented market to a more established exchange segment. The company is also listed among the constituents of the JPX-Nikkei Mid and Small Cap Index, reflecting its recognition within a Japanese equity-market index focused on mid-sized and smaller companies. The available reference material does not identify the company's founder, chief executives, original founding year, current ownership structure, or detailed later product history. Accordingly, those fields remain unspecified rather than being inferred. The company's present identity is best understood as an active Japanese corporate communications business built around a widely used press-release distribution network.

• 2021

  Large-scale platform adoption reported

  [1]PR Timesen.wikipedia.org

  Reference material reported that, by February 2021, more than 50,000 companies used the service, including about half of Japan's listed companies, with more than 20,000 releases distributed per month.

• 2018

  Transfer to the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section

  [1]PR Timesen.wikipedia.org

  In August 2018, PR Times moved from the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market to the First Section.

A large-scale Japanese digital public-relations and press-release distribution platform connecting companies and public institutions with journalists, partner media, and the general public.

• Press-release distribution platform

  PR TIMES

  PR TIMES is the company's central online service for distributing announcement materials and press releases. Businesses, government offices, local governments, and other organizations use it to publish information intended for journalists and the general public. The platform combines direct online access with distribution relationships involving external media organizations, helping announcements reach audiences beyond the company's own website. It is the defining product of the PR Times brand and the foundation of the company's corporate public-relations activities.

• 2018

  Transfer from the Mothers market to the First SectionStrategy

  Background

  PR Times had been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market, which was designed for startup and growth companies.

  Action taken

  The company transferred its listing to the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section in August 2018.

  Aftermath

  The transfer marked a change in the company's exchange-market classification as it continued operating as a publicly listed communications company.

  Source

1. 1PR Timesen.wikipedia.org
2. 2PR TIMES official websiteprtimes.jp